Headhunting question

[KamPa]

A simple question - am I missing something, or is it much easier to get employees with higher max % when only sticking to beginners? It's trivial to find one with >190% that will eventually go >450% and even perfect 200% aren't all that rare.

When switching to Intermediate (nevermind expert), it's much worse. At that point, beginner would have max potential of 330-340 - I'd be lucky if I find an Expert with these stats.I assume it's because the potential speed spread is much higher and it takes longer, but the result is that a trained beginner is much better than whoever can be acquired at higher levels.

Sure, training them up will take a while, but having extra 100% performance seems like a huge advantage. I suppose superstar employees eventually make Expert worth it, but that's very long time where it feels like supposedly experienced employees are pretty much always inferior to trained newbies. By the time I find a decent "Expert", I'd have already trained the beginner to be better.

[jhovgaard]

Hi there,

I won't comment on play strategies, but I can confirm that everything above is correct and intended :-)

Best,
Jonas

[KamPa]

Still, isn't this a little harsh for the supposed "experts"? Headhunting them takes much longer, but their perfomance will pretty much always be inferior. This makes them only useful when I need to hire several people *right this moment*, but even then, I could grab couple newbies to train.

I get the idea, but the differences seem crazy big. "Experts" are actually intermediate, while these are barely better than trained beginners before promotion.

[jhovgaard]

Originally posted by KamPa:

Still, isn't this a little harsh for the supposed "experts"? Headhunting them takes much longer, but their perfomance will pretty much always be inferior. This makes them only useful when I need to hire several people *right this moment*, but even then, I could grab couple newbies to train.

I get the idea, but the differences seem crazy big. "Experts" are actually intermediate, while these are barely better than trained beginners before promotion.

It's always hard to balance these "advantages". It has to be enough for people to actually acknowledge, but also not so much it messes with the overall balance.

I've noted your feedback :-)

Thanks for letting me know!

Best,
Jonas